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a clay pyramid that traps steam and lies to you about how long dinner took.
means A North African stew of meat, vegetables, and spices slow-cooked in a shallow earthenware pot with a tall conical lid — and the name of that pot itself.
from From Moroccan Arabic ṭājin, which traces back to the Arabic ṭājin, a borrowing from the Greek tēganon — a frying pan or shallow cooking dish. So the word traveled from a Greek kitchen, through Arabic, and settled in the Maghreb, where it came to mean both the cone-lidded vessel and the dish that emerges from it.
- the cone
- Conical lid recycles steam, basting food with zero added water
- berber roots
- Named for the pot, not the food inside
- slow magic
- Tough cheap cuts turn silky over low coals
- unglazed risk
- Some traditional ones can leach lead if poorly fired
- desert genius
- Designed to conserve water in arid North Africa